AJAX: "Stronger Than Dirt!"

Computational biologist and blogger Neil Saunders invites his bioinformatics-loving peers to try out AJAX when building their next web applications. He takes his readers through a programmatic step-by-step, showing them how to write the code for a simple form page.  The form allows users to select a given gene UID from the NCBI Gene Database and then returns with the associated protein name -- all without having to reload the page.

Calling it the "
AJAX equivalent of 'Hello World,'" this morning's post might go better with two shots of espresso, rather than one.  Or, a bowl of oatmeal, depending on how far along you are in your
AJAX tutorial.